Archive for the 'Politics' Category


Wealth Inequality In America

YouTube is more trusted than CNN. But it’s not only the Time Warner news outlet… People trust YouTube more than any television news, from cable to network, from Fox to ABC. Why? Because there’s no filter. No one beholden to banks or advertisers skewing what’s exhibited. Now I haven’t checked the data in this clip. [...]

Why You Can’t Get A Good Seat At A Fair Price

Concert tickets are so expensive because of income inequality. Yes, the Internet allows scalpers and StubHub (the same thing?) to reach a national audience, but in the old days supply exceeded demand to an even greater extent and despite the presence of scalpers, prices were never this high. The difference is now there’s a whole [...]

Everybody Knows

EVERYBODY KNOWS 1. Most tweets go unread. Just because you tweet, don’t expect your followers to see it. Few view their feed comprehensively. They check in and check out. Catching only bits and pieces. Even forgetting your fake and dormant followers, which are voluminous, far fewer than fifty percent of your followers see one of [...]

History

SONY Succeeded with radical breakthroughs. Failed with incremental improvements. Shed your past if you want to succeed in the future. You may be angry that Apple changed its connector, but look what backward compatibility did for Microsoft… It kept the company in the doldrums to the point where the Redmond enterprise completely missed tablet computing [...]